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Three years after announcing it as “an all-new perspective” on its long-running Division series, Ubisoft has quietly pulled the plug on The Division: Heartland, saying it has decided to focus its efforts on other games instead. Details were scant when The Division: Heartland was first announced beyond that it would be a free-to-play “standalone game…

Just days after Microsoft announced the upcoming closure of Tango Gameworks (alongside Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games), the studio has released one final patch for the outstanding rhythm-based action game Hi-Fi Rush. Hi-Fi Rush was unequivocally great. It holds an “overwhelmingly positive” user rating on Steam across more than 23,000 user reviews…

Dungeons and Dragons is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Dead by Daylight is getting in on that action by bringing the powerful lich Vecna to the game as its next killer. Liches in general are powerful and unpleasant in equal measure, but even by their usual high standards Vecna is noteworthy. He actually…

The Tomb Raider series that was first rumored more than a year ago is now official: Hot on the heels of its hit Fallout show, Prime Video has formally unveiled plans for a new series based on the Tomb Raider games. The new series will be written and produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known as the…

Manor Lords does not yet have official mod support, but that hasn’t stopped industrious modders from doing their thing with it. A VR mod popped up at the beginning of May, and last week someone put Shrek into the game. Which is all well and good, and developer Slavic Magic seems very supportive of the…

Seeking to quell confusion about what his new game really is, indie developer Tomas Sala has renamed his latest release to “Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, a creative building sandbox,” because players on Steam kept tagging it as a strategy game. “Bulwark is [a] chill builder that just looks like it would be a cool deep strategy…

Square Enix is set to become the latest game company to put employees out of work, as the company has confirmed it will soon be imposing layoffs at its US and EU offices. Hints of trouble first came to light in Square Enix’s new “medium term business plan” revealed earlier today, in which it laid…

The Assassin’s Creed game we’ve known for the last year-and-a-half as Codename Red finally has a proper title, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and it’s going to be fully revealed in just a couple days, on May 15. Codename Red was revealed in September 2022 alongside two other unnamed Assassin’s Creed games: Hexe, which has a very…